Problem viewing cursor value in debug mode

Question

Hi eveybody!
I'm French and new here.
I know some topics deal with my subject but I don't really understand.
Here's my environnement :
Win2000 / ORA 9iR2 / SQL DEVELOPPER 1.0.0.15.57
As some people say when i'm in debug mode (after compiling my procedure PL/SQL for debug) I can't see any value of my cursors !
Ex :
CURSOR cur IS
SELECT COL1, COL2
FROM TABLE1;
v_cur cur%ROWTYPE;
For v_cur in cur
Loop
If v_cur.COL1 = 'toto' then
'do something' ;
End if;
End Loop;
When I run this step by step in debug mode I can't see the data of my cursor in the data or smartdata pane.
The values of my cursor is allways null !
I guess I'm not the only one to see that bug.
My question is should I wait a new release of sql developer or is there any solution for this problem?
Anyway I want to congratulate the developers team who create this tool which is fabulous! It makes me forget TOAD and it's totally free.
Thanks a lot for this job.
Greg

Answer 1

Here is a piece of code I use:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sm_list AS CURSOR emp_cursor IS
SELECT d.department_name,
e.last_name
FROM departments d,
employees e
WHERE d.department_id = e.department_id;
emp_record emp_cursor % rowtype;
BEGIN
FOR emp_record IN emp_cursor
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(emp_record.last_name);
END LOOP;
END;
With this example, I agree, the smart data is null. Logged a bug. However, note that I do see values in the data tab and can modify and watch these values.
When using cursors I've been looping and then fetching into cursor records, i.e.:
FETCH emp_cursor
INTO emp_record;
emp_tab(i) := emp_record;
and then the values display in the Smart data and data tabs.
Sue